Wednesday, January 10, 2018

5 Kubernetes must-reads: Tips and trends

Get practical tips on the popular Kubernetes container orchestration technology - and a peek at what's coming next

Kubernetes
is having a moment – but don’t look for its popularity to wane anytime
soon. As enterprises move beyond experimenting and start working in
earnest with containers, the number of containers multiply: So do the manual chores. Orchestration tools like Kubernetes add automated help.
“Running a few standalone containers for development purposes won’t
rob your IT team of time or patience: A standards-based container
runtime by itself will do the job,” Red Hat technology evangelist Gordon Haff recently noted.
“But once you scale to a production environment and multiple
applications spanning many containers, it’s clear that you need a way to
coordinate those containers to deliver the individual services. As
containers accumulate, complexity grows. Eventually, you need to take a
step back and group containers along with the coordinated services they
need, such as networking, security, and telemetry.” (See Haff’s full
article, How enterprise IT uses Kubernetes to tame container complexity.)
That’s where Kubernetes comes in – and why its popularity continues
to grow. This open source project was in the spotlight at last week’s KubeCon conference in Austin, where IT practitioners and community experts shared best practices and looked ahead.
We’ve recently been sharing practical tips and strategies from IT
leaders and community experts related to containers, microservices, and
Kubernetes. Here, we’ve rounded that advice up so you can easily dig in
yourself, or share with others in your organization: